The Cass County Sheriff’s Office released further details on a shooting that occurred in Lyman on Thursday evening. The Sheriff’s Office reports they responded to a call of a shooting at 69244 Lyman Street in Lyman at 7:02pm. The victim, 22-year-old Chase Jones of Atlantic, was transported to Cass County Memorial Hospital by Griswold Rescue. Jones was declared deceased at the hospital.

Initial dispatch reports indicated Jones was shot in the neck during the misfire of a .9-mm handgun. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday, July 13th at the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny.

The incident remains under investigation by the Cass County Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Criminal Investigations.